Very short stories: Writing and reading flash fiction
Flash fiction – a short story lasting only a few hundred words – is perhaps the most misunderstood of prose fiction forms, and potentially one of the hardest to write. What are the challenges of writing flash fiction, and what sorts of stories is it best equipped to tell? Is it possible to write a work of flash fiction that could rival lengthier classics in the field? Can you write quality fiction shorter than this panel description? (Which is 88 words long, by the way, including this sentence.)Martin Livings, Sarah Parker, Jeff Harris, Amanda Pillar, Shane Jiraiya Cummings*
Friday 3pm. Room 217.
* My attendance on this panel hasn’t been confirmed.

Dirty feed
Are attempts to censor the web an assault on our freedom or a necessary precaution? As in Australia, so to the world.Talie Helene, Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Gary Kemble, Cory Doctorow
Monday 12 noon. Room 210.